'A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!!', 1815. Artist: Anon

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'A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!!', 1815. Showing a pig in military uniform (General Sir Eyre Coote) standing on its hind legs and being birched by three Christ's Hospital boys. A woman is standing at the doorway with Sir William Curtis and Alderman Matthew Wood. Coote was dismissed from the army in scandalous circumstances after he was caught by the school nurse at the Christ's Hospital School flogging pupils and then being flogged by them for money.

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Photo credit: © The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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